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Since the income tax cuts to compensate for increasing the GST will not deliver real and lasting compensation for workers, and since workers are the one group in society with the power to fix that, the task of militants in our trade unions should be to argue for and organise around winning wages increases to compensate for any increased GST. Over to you militant unions and class conscious workers. Just the threat of GST wage increase strikes might cause some ruling class members to hesitate about increasing the GST. And it might help unions win back some working class support.

In 1939 the US turned back the boat the St Louis with 939 Jews on board. It went back to Europe. Estimates are that at least 250 of those Jews died in the Holocaust. It is the same logic that sees Australian ‘Border Protection’ Minister Scott Morrison return asylum seekers to the war criminals and human rights abusers in charge of Sri Lanka.

Surely we need ‘behaviour protocols’ to protect us from all these vicious brutal Liberals roaming freely in the suburbs? I have advised the police but they appear not to take seriously my concerns about vilification, lies, incitement to violence and dog whistling. Perhaps the fact almost all the members of this bloody and violent Liberal gang are rich and white has something to do with their inaction.

Only the working class on the march, fighting for its own interests, can defend our society from the racist downward spiral it is on.

Politicians on both sides of the capitalist divide think there are votes in bashing Muslims. One side is just quiet about it and watches as the boats full of Muslims sink,while talking about being tough on asylum seekers. The other side attacks Muslims openly and talks about turning the boats back.